Like most Americans, I suspect, I’ve been riveted by the PBS 7-part series on WWII, told from the ground up (by the real people who experienced it) , and with benefit of newly unearthed contemporaneous video footage (some in color) & stills. It’s been nothing short of astounding, in my opinion.
I fervently [...]
Real War /Faux War
midnight musings
i have been trying to wrap my mind around many things lately- why some football teams are way better than others; why cats are so ridiculously needy and stalkish sometimes, and how people can think so regressively. it struck me as i read about pakistan the other day- and the one line in the [...]
the road to nowhere
I have run clean out of ideas for ‘posts for peace’- which is why i don’t do them anymore. Call me jaded, it isn’t that i don’t want peace- i just don’t have hope for it. Generation after generation of people have started wars and have tried to end them. I guess [...]
Doing what we can
please take a moment and read the following post and the links. the neo cons are pushing hard for iran- and we have little recourse other than contacting as many people as we can. please read:
crooks and liars- action alert on IRAN!!!!!
spread the word!!!
tags: activsim, no war with iran
Iraq Coverage: All Warlords All the Time
I imagine your Demon isn’t the only one out here in American TV-land who is suffering from a mighty boob-tube cathode-ray hangover today after watching C-Span coverage of General Petraeus & Ambassador Ryan Crocker on how “well” *ahem* the surge is working. I, too, gorged on the feast of ink sprayed over the topic [...]
The Morality of Capital Punishment
Last month in spite of an international outcry, Bush’s home state of Texas carried out its 400th execution since the death penalty was reinstated, in 1976. For this auspicious “milestone” the European Union chose to take a stand for international human rights. All 27 E.U. member states, plus more than a dozen other [...]
putting it all together
the blogosphere has been pretty busy of late- what with all of the corruption oozing out of the government and whatnot. ever wonder why it is only just seeping out now? i do- but then again i tend to be suspicious in nature. so- a recent recap has seen at least 14 [...]
Are YOU Feeling The Culture Of Fear?
We all know that beauty and brains usually are not synonymous. Some people are fortunate to have it all I suppose…but there are those that don’t have that entire package going on for them. Yet that moniker may be transcended with beauty of mind and spirit…and I feel that perhaps embodies my subject for today…Mr. [...]
